The U.S. government is currently financing its massive borrowing with ultralow interest i.o.u.’s, but this happy situation may not last much longer. Treasury officials now face enormous debt, an accumulation of short-term borrowings that are due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to return to normal once the Fed decides the [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Uncategorized on November 27th, 2009 @ 10:00 am
Tagged with: budget, economy, finance, government
The LA Times points to the plight of small business centers in the state of California, which offer loans, counseling and other resources to entrepreneurs. Despite the fact that they’ve been busier than ever before, cuts to state budgets have forced them lose out on matching federal funds, turn people away and in some cases, [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 27th, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Tagged with: budget, Business, California, Community, economy, entrepreneur, funding, innovation, investing, opportunities, opportunity, resources, sharing
With the global economy finally beginning to turn around, this year’s G-8 taxed the collective psyche of the world leaders. The broad scope and ambition of this year’s conference weighed on President Obama, who was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article as saying “the one thing I look forward to is fewer summit meetings.” [...]
An article in Time points to a pilot healthcare program called Prometheus that seeks to cut costs by putting doctors on a budget. Set to launch in January of 2010, the radical model will be used to calculate insurance coverage for 80,000 workers in Rockford, Illinois, attempting to reverse the existing incentive-based system that drives [...]
Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News on July 7th, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
Tagged with: budget, cutting costs, doctors, efficiency, healthcare, innovation, insurance, patient care, prometheus
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.